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DENVER (AP) - A University of Denver student who spent the night in jail will get $8,500 under a settlement announced this week by the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado.

Officers will also be trained that it's OK for citizens to ask officers for their ID.

ACLU attorney Taylor Pendergrass says Evan Herzoff filmed the arrest of an individual April 8 of last year when Officer Jeffrey Morgan asked him for his ID. He was told he was free to go and that's when Herzoff asked Morgan for his business card.

Herzoff was arrested on suspicion of trespassing, handcuffed and jailed.

The charge was later dropped and police launched an internal investigation following a complaint. An independent police monitor says the officer was disciplined but couldn't release details.

City officials say the settlement requires approval by the City Council.

Note that the officers will be 'trained' rather than re-trained as discussed elsewhere on OCDO.

Either we are equal or we are not. Good people ought to be armed where they will, with wits and guns and the truth. NRA KMA

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It occurs to me that this officer and his buddies are too stupid to continue being police officers. Um, if they arrested this guy, why didn't they also have an accident and erase the offending video tape ? No amount of re-training is gonna help here as far as I can tell.

Or put another way, while patently stupid this cop was too honest to stay out of trouble. On the other hand his superiors are not stupid. But from their statements acknowledge dishonesty in the cops as a rule. (Read the Denver post story cited above. Especially the last quote in the article.)

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This article was, indeed, more well written than the one OP posted. I still had a problem with the article in that it seemed to pay more attention to the fact that tax payers would be penalized for this case. Indeed, tax payers would be footing the bill for this. Given the circumstances, however, I, as a taxpayer (though, not of CO), would not oppose such a settlement on the basis that it exposed an inept LEO/PD that citizens would be more concerned with.

I might begin to question the motives of the case had Herzoff been seeking an outrageous settlement.